Nicholas Kenyon: Great Orchestral Works (BBC Proms Pocket Guides series)

This volume covers a huge range of popular orchestral music in many forms - from Barber's famous Adagio through to orchestral extracts from Wagner's operas - & some of the most often programmed concert works including Debussy's La Mer, Holst's The Planets, Ravel's Bolero, Strauss's Don Juan, & a wealth of tone poems, symphonic studies & essays, dances, variations & concertos for orchestra.